Ecclesiastes 7:8-15

⁸Better is the end of a thing than its beginning. Better is the patient in spirit than the proud in spirit.

⁹Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry; for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.

¹⁰Say not, “What is the cause that the former days were better than these?” For thou dost not inquire wisely concerning this.

¹¹Wisdom is as good as an estate? yea, it hath an advantage over it for them that see the sun.

¹²For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence. But knowledge hath the advantage. For wisdom giveth life to them that have it.

¹³Consider the work of God! Who can make straight that which he hath made crooked?

¹⁴In the day of prosperity be joyful; but look for a day of adversity! for this also, as well as the other, hath God appointed, to the end that a man should not find out any thing which shall be after him.

¹⁵All this have I seen in my days of vanity. There are righteous men who perish in their righteousness, and there are wicked men who live long in their wickedness.